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Transcript/ScriptTV Afghan Female Teacher US - Noorzai
HEADLINE: Afghan Teacher, Escaped Taliban, Finds New Home in Massachusetts
TEASER: Afghan teacher’s resettlement was made possible by the Neighborhood
Support Team part of the Trinity Church of Northborough.
PUBLISHED AT: 03/14/2023 AT 11:50AM
BYLINE: Roshan Noorzai
CONTRIBUTOR: Hoshang Fahim
DATELINE: Northborough, MA
VIDEOGRAPHER: Hoshang Fahim
VIDEO EDITOR: Hoshang Fahim
SCRIPT EDITORS: KEnochs; Page
VIDEO SOURCE (S): VOA Original | VOA Afghan Service
PLATFORMS (mark with X): WEB __ TV _x_ RADIO __
TRT: 2:41
VID APPROVED BY: KE
TYPE: TVPKG
EDITOR NOTES:))
((INTRO))
[[Feroza Amiri is a teacher who fled Afghanistan after the Taliban took power in August
2021. She and her son started a new life in Northborough, Massachusetts where she
now works at a high school as an assistant teacher. Roshan Noorzai has the story.]]
((NARRATOR))
Afghan refugees, Feroza Amiri and her 7-year-old son, were among the thousands of
Afghans who fled Afghanistan after the Taliban’s takeover in August 2021.
Amiri says that when she arrived in Northborough, Massachusetts in January 2022, she
did not know what to expect, but found a supportive community.
((Feroza Amiri, Afghan Refugee)) ((Female, Dari ))
“Fortunately, I was introduced to a team. It is a team of women who supported me and
helped me with everything.”
((NARRATOR))
Amiri's resettlement was made possible by the Neighborhood Support Team part of the
Trinity Church of Northborough.
((John Posluszny, Neighborhood Support Team)) ((Male in English))
“We reached out to the community and in no time just talking with our friends and
putting the word out, we had a lot of people from Northborough who want to help.”
((NARRATOR))
The community helped Amiri find a place to live, enroll her son in school, and is now
helping her get a driver's license, buy a car and learn the language.
((Martha Michalewich, Neighborhood Support Team)) ((Female, English))
“Rose started to take English lessons, individual English lessons with two of women on
our team. They came twice a week. One came one day; one came another day to work
on Rose's English. Someone else got to work with her on her resume to get her
employment.”
((NARRATOR))
Amiri got her first job at the local department store, Macy’s, but soon the committee
helped her get a job that she loves.
((Jean Leif, Trinity Church Northborough)) ((Female in English))
“Fortunately, we had a teacher on our team who teaches at the local high school, and
she was able to direct Rose to the special ed department at Algonquin High School.”
((NARRATOR))
Amiri who worked as a secondary school teacher in Afghanistan says that if she were in
Afghanistan, she would not be able to continue teaching as the Taliban banned girls’
education and barred women from working outside.
((Feroza Amiri, Afghan refugee)) ((Female, Dari))
“It is clear that I would be staying home just like other women [in Afghanistan]. My
mother was a teacher. My sister was a teacher. They are both staying home now.”
((NARRATOR))
Amiri says that she is happy to be in the United States, but she is worried about her
family who are still in Afghanistan.
((Roshan Noorzai – VOANEWS – Northborough, Massachusetts.
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